Our own Susan Canby

One of the funny scenes in the Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night comes when George Harrison finds himself consulting with supposed advertising guru Simon Marshall (video below):

Simon Marshall: If you don’t cooperate, you won’t get to meet Susan.

George: And who’s this Susan when she’s at home?

Simon Marshall: Only Susan Canby, our resident teenager.

George: Oh! You mean that posh bird who gets everything wrong?

Simon Marshall: Excuse me?

George: Oh, yeah. The lads frequently sit around the telly and watch her for a giggle. One time, we actually sat down and wrote these letters saying how gear she was and all that rubbish.

In real life, Barack Obama is our very own Susan Canby. The Iranian “hardliners” frequently sit around the telly and watch him for a giggle. The Jerusalem Post reports:

The West’s frequent use of military threats and citing of their ability to attack Iran at will has become a joke among Iranian commanders in the military, according to a high ranking military official in the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday.

Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Asoudi alluded to the West’s hesitancy to use military force and mocked its resolve while speaking to troops in the North.

“We should thank Obama for refreshing us by referring to his ‘options on the table’, including the military one; we just relax and laugh at such ridiculous words,” Asoudi said.

Those Iranian “hardliners” seem to have a pretty good handle on the situation.